The Miami Ute

wait, you didn’t think Rising was a legitimate threat to catch the ball on that play? surely you cannot be suggesting that he was just going to stand there and be anything more than a decoy. because I was sold that the intent was for him to make a diving play in the corner of the end zone. unfortunately, ASU sniffed it out and Kuithe had to…[Read more]

“… in space”. get the ball to the playmakers in space!

What did Ohio State do in the 2021 Rose Bowl? They ran 2 receivers deep, another on an 18 yard in and their best receiver Smith-whatever on an 8-12 yard drag route. Granted, Utah pass rush was stymied all game but you ended up with 4 legitimate options every play and DB’s can’t cover…[Read more]

Bad offense (#82 scoring, #58 ypg) v Bad defense (#104 scoring, #42 ypg). Optimist says Bad offense will take advantage of bad defense. Pessimist says both will perform better than norm but still be on the bad side. Wager accordingly

stop serenading me with your beautiful words

well shevitsky. now I’ve got to take it back 🙂

I stopped counting at 19 when I ran out of fingers and toes

symbol police alert:

M is thousands
MM is millions

3,000 M = 3 MM

The one key for the Penix turnaround was that he went to a school with an offense designed to showcase his arm while asking him to do little to nothing with his legs. Penix’s history would have made going somewhere with a scheme like Oregon’s a much bigger risk.

Should Rising decide to play next year, that is the kind of situation he needs to…[Read more]

there would a be a certain amount of irony were Rising to follow Tuttle at Michigan

2024 was the makeup year for not being allowed to play in 2019 based on the new rule. The medical redshirt would be for the 2023 season and need to go through the NCAA for approval.

Once you wipe 2019 and 2020 off the table as free years, you still have 5 years to play 4.

2018 – redshirt
2021 – redshirt freshman
2022 – redshirt sophomore
2023 -…[Read more]

@Utah: we seem to be on the opposite side of a lot of issues but I am 100% behind that post. Please enjoy a well earned upvote

The playbook isn’t. There aren’t any plays in there that aren’t in every other OC’s playbook. It always comes down to the plays called and more importantly, the sequencing.

My premise has always been that the Whitt/Ludwig way of doing things (because don’t for an instant think that Whitt doesn’t have influence on the overall vision) is try to…[Read more]

Do we have ANY reason to believe Ludwig will let Wilson do more? Or “have fun and play more loose” like others have said? Whitt and Ludwig don’t change. I’d love for Isaac to just ball out, get super confident and want to be our QB1 for years to come. But how can anyone believe Ludwig would let that happen or give IW the opportunities to be that.

2015 makes sense when you consider ARod was the OC (I liked his scheme better than Ludwig’s even if the QB wasn’t as good but that’s an argument for another day) and it was the first season Sitake wasn’t the DC. It was also the first year where Hill wasn’t running the special teams and marked the beginning of that decline even if Wishnowsky and…[Read more]

“Three season ending injuries” should be nuff said but not with Utah fans.

May be mediocre but still 6-0. Hell, Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl and Dan Marino didn’t.

I was hoping we could have at least a week before the will he, won’t he talk started back up. Instead I got an hour to try to fall back in love with Utah football before the guest who won’t leave set up his tent in my brain again.

We don’t know when the injury happened. The torn meniscus, if the rumor is true, could have easily come on that last sack which was really ugly in real time.

He is eligible and as I read the quote from Whitt in the DNews, it’s not completely off the table for him to come back:

There is a possibility for Rising to take another medical redshirt and play an eighth year of college football.

“No, but there will be now that we’re in the sit…[Read more]

I definitely have more excitement for this weekend and it’s all because I now want to see how the kids rally and overcome everything that’s happened so far this year. That’s a hell of a lot better than spending all week hoping they don’t figure out a way to blow it again.